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ALLARME BUFFON, ARRIVA De SANCTIS
Donadoni si cautela: stasera il portiere dell'Udinese raggiungerà la Nazionale in ritiro. Il numero 1 juventino è ancora alle prese con una gastroenterite
Morgan De Sanctis, all'Udinese dal '99. SportfriuliFIRENZE, 26 marzo 2007 - Morgan De Santis, portiere dell'Udinese si aggregherà da questa sera alla nazionale che si sta preparando alla qualificazione degli Europei 2008, mercoledì a Bari contro la Scozia.
La convocazione di un terzo portiere èstata decisa da Donadoni in via precauzionale: Gianluigi Buffon è infatti rimasto a riposo per il protrarsi dei problemi gastrointestinali che lo avevano bloccato già ieri.
http://www.gazzetta.it/Calcio/Nazionale/Primo_Piano/2007/03_Marzo/26/buffon.shtml
Basically a short article from the La Gazzetta Dello Sport website saying that Udinese's Morgan De Sanctis has been added to the Italy squad in case Gigi doesn't recover from a bout of gastroeneritis in time for wednesdays game versus Scotland.
Donadoni si cautela: stasera il portiere dell'Udinese raggiungerà la Nazionale in ritiro. Il numero 1 juventino è ancora alle prese con una gastroenterite
Morgan De Sanctis, all'Udinese dal '99. SportfriuliFIRENZE, 26 marzo 2007 - Morgan De Santis, portiere dell'Udinese si aggregherà da questa sera alla nazionale che si sta preparando alla qualificazione degli Europei 2008, mercoledì a Bari contro la Scozia.
La convocazione di un terzo portiere èstata decisa da Donadoni in via precauzionale: Gianluigi Buffon è infatti rimasto a riposo per il protrarsi dei problemi gastrointestinali che lo avevano bloccato già ieri.
http://www.gazzetta.it/Calcio/Nazionale/Primo_Piano/2007/03_Marzo/26/buffon.shtml
Basically a short article from the La Gazzetta Dello Sport website saying that Udinese's Morgan De Sanctis has been added to the Italy squad in case Gigi doesn't recover from a bout of gastroeneritis in time for wednesdays game versus Scotland.
Goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon is a doubt for Italy's UEFA EURO 2008 qualifier against Scotland in Bari on Wednesday because of a virus that has forced him to miss the last two days of training.
De Sanctis call-up
The 29-year-old Juventus player, who has been capped 72 times, is expected to recover in time for the crunch Group B encounter although coach Roberto Donadoni is taking no chances, calling Udinese Calcio's Morgan De Sanctis into his squad as back-up. The world champions go into the match fourth in their section, five points behind joint-leaders Scotland and France.
Uefa.com
De Sanctis call-up
The 29-year-old Juventus player, who has been capped 72 times, is expected to recover in time for the crunch Group B encounter although coach Roberto Donadoni is taking no chances, calling Udinese Calcio's Morgan De Sanctis into his squad as back-up. The world champions go into the match fourth in their section, five points behind joint-leaders Scotland and France.
Uefa.com
Buffon has to overcome bellyful of problems
When Craig Gordon's potential to become one of Europe's elite goalkeepers is being assessed, there is often one name held up as setting the premium standard. Gianluigi Buffon is hoping a lingering stomach bug will not prevent him from proving against Scotland that his exemplary credentials remain untarnished by a season of infrequent examination in Italy's Serie B.
The strikers within Alex McLeish's squad will be keen for a different outcome. If Buffon is confined to his bathroom while they take the field at Bari's San Nicola stadium then, psychologically at least, one significant barrier may have been removed.
Roberto Donadoni, the Italy coach, remains upbeat that Buffon will be fine for tomorrow night, but the player again missed training yesterday after a weekend bout of gastroenteritis. With Marco Amelia having already withdrawn from the squad, Udinese's Morgan De Sanctis has been brought in as a precautionary back-up for Buffon.
That the world's most expensive goalkeeper, all £32m of him, has had to mix it with the paupers of Italy's second division is one of the strangest quirks from the Calciopoli scandal that saw Juventus relegated as punishment. It has been modest strikers from Spezia, Albinoleffe and Mantova who have been testing Buffon in recent months, rather than the supreme talents of AC Milan, Inter or Roma.
Yet he remains an indispensable figure for both club and country. The 29-year-old's exalted status is such that Juventus took out adverts in the Italian press during November to thank him for standing by the club after their demotion.
Numerous other stars jumped ship amid the fallout from Italian football's most sensational corruption investigation, but Buffon rejected advances from Inter, Chelsea and Manchester United.
The Turin club's grateful management felt he should have won the Ballon D'Or as European footballer of the year after his integral involvement in Italy's World Cup triumph. Instead, the prize went to Azzurri team-mate Fabio Cannavaro, who had quit Juve for Real Madrid when relegation was confirmed.
"Your shirt says who you are," read the text of the advert. "The club, your team-mates, the supporters and the sponsors wish to thank Buffon for having been, and still being, their No.1"
Juve's supremacy has rarely been in doubt during their humbling second-tier experience, with the club having cruised into a six-point lead at the top of the table. So could Kenny Miller or Kris Boyd take any comfort from facing a Buffon, if passed fit for the Group B qualifier, who has wallowed in an untesting environment? It's a nice thought, but one that seems hyper-optimistic.
Indeed, Buffon has even spoken of finding a new level of motivation in Serie B. "My choice was totally illogical, but I owe this club a lot," he said of his decision to stay.
"I am proud that I stayed here and that we were punished, because that sort of rehabilitated Juventus. We became a scapegoat, but now we can hold our head up high."
Buffon's longer-term future remains uncertain. There have been rumours that he plans to follow Marcello Lippi on the World Cup coach's return to club management, possibly at AC Milan. He has also told Juventus that they must prove they can construct a squad capable of immediately competing for the Serie A championship upon promotion. To that end, a £71.6m injection to fund suitable purchases was recently announced.
It will ultimately be a judgment call from Buffon. That ability is essential for any goalkeeper during match action, yet has occasionally been founded lacking in other aspects of his life. Buffon has twice been accused of courting fascist sympathies, and twice insisted he was the unwitting victim of misinterpretation.
At Parma, he once chose the squad No.88 until it was pointed out that H was the eighth letter of the alphabet, and that far-right extremists sometimes used 88 to signify "Heil Hitler".
"88 looked like four balls, that was all," Buffon protested before changing to 77.
In 1999, he appeared on television wearing a T-shirt with the slogan "Death to those who give up." Buffon later said he had been unaware that had been a rallying cry during a right-wing riot in the southern city of Reggio Calabria in 1970.
His situation wasn't helped when Allessandra Mussolini, grand-daughter of Il Duce, attempted to make political capital out of his fashion sense, sporting a top that proclaimed "Death to him who gives up on Buffon" during one chaotic session in the Italian parliament.
The suspicion over those incidents has never extended into his merits as a goalkeeper. Ten years after his debut, Buffon remains a bedrock for Italy as they attempt to revive their Euro 2008 campaign.
Providing he has the stomach to face Scotland, that is.
The Herald
When Craig Gordon's potential to become one of Europe's elite goalkeepers is being assessed, there is often one name held up as setting the premium standard. Gianluigi Buffon is hoping a lingering stomach bug will not prevent him from proving against Scotland that his exemplary credentials remain untarnished by a season of infrequent examination in Italy's Serie B.
The strikers within Alex McLeish's squad will be keen for a different outcome. If Buffon is confined to his bathroom while they take the field at Bari's San Nicola stadium then, psychologically at least, one significant barrier may have been removed.
Roberto Donadoni, the Italy coach, remains upbeat that Buffon will be fine for tomorrow night, but the player again missed training yesterday after a weekend bout of gastroenteritis. With Marco Amelia having already withdrawn from the squad, Udinese's Morgan De Sanctis has been brought in as a precautionary back-up for Buffon.
That the world's most expensive goalkeeper, all £32m of him, has had to mix it with the paupers of Italy's second division is one of the strangest quirks from the Calciopoli scandal that saw Juventus relegated as punishment. It has been modest strikers from Spezia, Albinoleffe and Mantova who have been testing Buffon in recent months, rather than the supreme talents of AC Milan, Inter or Roma.
Yet he remains an indispensable figure for both club and country. The 29-year-old's exalted status is such that Juventus took out adverts in the Italian press during November to thank him for standing by the club after their demotion.
Numerous other stars jumped ship amid the fallout from Italian football's most sensational corruption investigation, but Buffon rejected advances from Inter, Chelsea and Manchester United.
The Turin club's grateful management felt he should have won the Ballon D'Or as European footballer of the year after his integral involvement in Italy's World Cup triumph. Instead, the prize went to Azzurri team-mate Fabio Cannavaro, who had quit Juve for Real Madrid when relegation was confirmed.
"Your shirt says who you are," read the text of the advert. "The club, your team-mates, the supporters and the sponsors wish to thank Buffon for having been, and still being, their No.1"
Juve's supremacy has rarely been in doubt during their humbling second-tier experience, with the club having cruised into a six-point lead at the top of the table. So could Kenny Miller or Kris Boyd take any comfort from facing a Buffon, if passed fit for the Group B qualifier, who has wallowed in an untesting environment? It's a nice thought, but one that seems hyper-optimistic.
Indeed, Buffon has even spoken of finding a new level of motivation in Serie B. "My choice was totally illogical, but I owe this club a lot," he said of his decision to stay.
"I am proud that I stayed here and that we were punished, because that sort of rehabilitated Juventus. We became a scapegoat, but now we can hold our head up high."
Buffon's longer-term future remains uncertain. There have been rumours that he plans to follow Marcello Lippi on the World Cup coach's return to club management, possibly at AC Milan. He has also told Juventus that they must prove they can construct a squad capable of immediately competing for the Serie A championship upon promotion. To that end, a £71.6m injection to fund suitable purchases was recently announced.
It will ultimately be a judgment call from Buffon. That ability is essential for any goalkeeper during match action, yet has occasionally been founded lacking in other aspects of his life. Buffon has twice been accused of courting fascist sympathies, and twice insisted he was the unwitting victim of misinterpretation.
At Parma, he once chose the squad No.88 until it was pointed out that H was the eighth letter of the alphabet, and that far-right extremists sometimes used 88 to signify "Heil Hitler".
"88 looked like four balls, that was all," Buffon protested before changing to 77.
In 1999, he appeared on television wearing a T-shirt with the slogan "Death to those who give up." Buffon later said he had been unaware that had been a rallying cry during a right-wing riot in the southern city of Reggio Calabria in 1970.
His situation wasn't helped when Allessandra Mussolini, grand-daughter of Il Duce, attempted to make political capital out of his fashion sense, sporting a top that proclaimed "Death to him who gives up on Buffon" during one chaotic session in the Italian parliament.
The suspicion over those incidents has never extended into his merits as a goalkeeper. Ten years after his debut, Buffon remains a bedrock for Italy as they attempt to revive their Euro 2008 campaign.
Providing he has the stomach to face Scotland, that is.
The Herald
I want this man to fail but at the same time I want Italia win 
Me too!I feel as though I'm being pulled apart - Being Scottish, I want Scotland to win, but, having followed them since 1990, I also want Italy to win, especially when they field our beloved Juventus players like DP & Gigi.
Barry Ferguson
That guy is a right ba'heid! I cannot stand him.